Three of the nine changes in nationality approved by the Executive of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at the meeting held in Paris matches with Russian athletes who requested to compete for another country, with the goal of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
It’s about the cyclist Mikhail Yakovlevworld bronze in keirin in 2021, and who from now on will compete as an Israeli, the ‘park’ BMX cyclist Valeria Lyubimovawho was granted French nationality, and the fighter Georgi Tiblovwho will be part of the Serbian team.
The IOC points out, when reporting its decision, that the Executive approved an exemption from the three-year waiting period to receive a new nationalityin agreement with the respective international federations and national Olympic committees, and recalled that “the Russian Olympic Committee is currently suspended.”
This exception to the three-year bracket is permitted by the Olympic Charter in the application text of its article 41: “A competitor who represents a country in the Olympic Gamesin continental or regional games or in world or regional championships and changed nationality or acquired a new one can participate in the Olympic Games representing his new country, provided that at least three years have passed because the competitor was the last to represent the previous country. This period may be reduced or even eliminated, with the agreement of the competent NOCs and IFs, by the IOC Executive Board, taking into account the circumstances of each case.”
Valeria Liubimova, one of those who benefited from the change of nationalityin May he still competed as a Russian in the World Cup in Montpellier (France).
The Russian Committee (COR) was suspended on October 12 for including among its members sports organizations from the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporiya, which in the opinion of the IOC constitutes a violation of the Olympic Charter.
COR appealed the decision to CASwhich has not yet been pronounced.
Russian athletes who, after sanctions for the invasion of Ukraine, were re-entered this year in international competitions participated under a neutral flag, without their national symbols.
There is still no final decision on the participation of Russians and Belarusians in the Paris Olympic Games.although they now participate in the qualification tournaments of almost all sports.
Source: La Verdad
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